Game apparatus.



Patented July 13, 1915.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented' July 13, 1915.

Application filed December 1, 1913, Serial No. 803,902. Renewed May 15, 1915. Serial No. 28,484.

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Be it known that I, AREA PERRY, a citizen of the United States, reslding at Chicago, in

the county of Cook and State of illinois,

have invented a new and useful Game Apparatus, of which the following is a specilicaticn. p

The object of my invention is to produce the equipment by means of which may be played a game having the essential characteristics of the pocket billiard game com monly known as Kelley pool so far as the same may be possible in the absence of a pocket billiard table, the sixteen balls and the necessary cues.

The equipment for my game is illustrated in the accompanying drawing which shows the individual pieces of the equipment.

The equipment comprises fifteen cards A bearing on their faces the numbers 1 to 15, inclusive, or otherwise designated to indicate the fifteen balls which are commonly used upon a pocket billiard table. -The eX- act manner in which these cards shall be separately designated to indicate the values 1 to l5 is, of course, immaterial. Additional cards B are provided and suitably desigk nated as scratch cards. The exact number of these cards B is not especially material, although it is desirable that enough of the cards be provided to give to the game a sufficient hazard, without, however, increasing the hazard too greatly. I find that ten of these cards is a satisfactory number. These cards B indicate what, in Kelley pool would be the delivery of the cue ball into one of the pockets of the table. l also provide a multiplicity of cards C which are blank, these cards corresponding to the condition in Kelley pool where the player has shot the cue ball without accomplishing the deposit of any object ball into a pocket. rThe exact number of these cards C is also immaterial, but it is my experience that fteen of these cards is a satisfactory number. l also provide fifteen numbered checks, buttons, or other convenient tokens D which are numbered consecutively from l to fifteen, or designated to correspond with the designations of the fifteen cards A.

Any number of persons can play the game at one time and these players are grouped at a table. The cards A, B and C are shuffled togetherfand placed face down in the center of the table and the numbered cheeks D are either placed in a receptacle where their designations cannot be seen or placed face down on the table and each player draws one of these tokens D and places it, number up, before him. Anyplayer may be selected to lead off but a convenient way of determining ythis is to. give the person drawing the lowest numbered token the first play. The score is kept in any suitable manner, either by count or by the use of valued counters, such, for instance, as. ordinary poker chips, and before the play starts each player contributes one point or counter to a general fund. The first player thereupon draws one card from the top of the deck and places it face up beside the pack. lf he draws ak blank or card C this blank indicates a miss and the play passes to the next player. lf and when one of the cards B is drawn, a scratch is indicated and a point (or more if that has been agreed upon by the players) or a counter is contributed to the general fund, and, by previous agreement, the drawing of a scratch may be considered either as a miss, whereupon play passes to the next player, or the original player may continue until he draws a blank card. Whenever the player turns one of the cards A, the eX- posed tokens D are examined and if the symbol upon the drawn card corresponds to the symbol upon the token before any other` player, that other player will increase the score of the player who has turned the card by an agreed lnumber of points, or

counters, and the player who has thus been'4 required to contribute is put out and must either discontinue play for the game or, atthe option of the players, he may be permitted to draw a new token D and place it before him upon contribution to the general fund of an agreed number of points or counters. Should this player who has been put out draw from the remaining tokens D a number which has been previously exposed in the play of the cards A, he will continue to draw from the tokens D until he exposes a symbol which has not been previously eX- posed in the play of that game. |The determination as to continuance of drawing from the tokens A is to lie wholly with the memory of the player who is drawing and the previously played cards cannot be searched to determine this question. If the drawing player, after drawing a new token 4 D should declare that that particular token had had its corresponding card A previously exposed and should startte draw another,

any other pla-yer may demand a view of the previously played cards A, B and C and .if it be found that the rejected token D has in fact no counter part in the played cards A, the score of the challenging player will be increased by an agreed number of points by the drawing player Who has been chal- Should the situation arise wherein all y'the y players are put out, then a double header is created; the cards are reshuifled, the tokens D redistributed; and each player again contributes tothe general fund Which is alloived to remain, andthis condition is repeated from game to game until the game is Won in the manner previously described.

I have designated my improved gaine yas Kard Kelley.

It is, of course, readily apparent that in order to maintain the analogy With the pocket billard game knownv as Kelley pool, the cards A and the tokens D should be fifteen in number, but it will also be readily apparent that the variation in this nume ber would not change the character of the game or the equipment. The fundamental characteristic of the equipment consists in a pack of cards ooiiiprising groups A, B and C, and token D corresponding in number and designation with the number and designation of the cards in group A.

It Will be readily understood that the physical character ofthe cards and the character of the backs may be varied to a considerable extent, just as ordinary playing-cards are varied, and that the complete apparatus may be either incased in a common telescope case or in any other suitable manner convenient for sale and storage.

I claim as my invention: 'i

l. A game apparatus comprising a deck of cards embodying` three groups, and a group of tokens, the cards of one group being consecutively individualized and the cards of the other tivo groups being group designated, and the tokens corresponding in number and individualization to the firstnientioned group of cards.

2. A game apparatus comprising a plurality of elements indistinguishable from each other upon one face and distinguishl able from each other in three groups upon the other face, distinguishing faces being group-distin guished in tvvo of the groups, andin theV third group being not only group-distin-l guished but also separately individualized, and a fourth group of elements readily distinguisliable at all times from the said plurality of elements individualized in correspondence with the individualization'of the elements of the third group.

3. A gaine apparatus comprising a deck of cards distinguishable in three groups, the cards of the rst group each indicating a blank; the cards of the second group each indicating a scratch.; the cards of the third group being fifteen in number and individualized by the numbers l to 15; and a set of tokens individualized to correspond in number and individualization with the third group of cards.

4. A game apparatus comprising a deck of cards distinguishable in three groups; the cards of the first group each indicating a blank; the cards of the second group each indicating a scratch; the cards of the third groups individualized; and a set of tokens individualized to correspond in number and individualization with the third group of cards.l

In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Chicago, Illinois, this 28th day of November, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and thirteen.

K ABBA PERRY.

Witnesses: y

CARLTON H. REEVE, W. F. DoGGET'r.

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